The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-08-26
Friday, August 26, 1887.
The Tickets.

q sufficient number OF men to furnish
such candidates as The people wish
to take charge of the public business
in State and county. Any who wish
to gain an intelligent knowledge OF
the fitness of candidates for the sew
eral offices they have been nominated
to fill may readily do so by inquiring
of others who are acquainted with
the gentlemen who compose the tick
cts.
After attending many conventions
and studying their make up, and
necessarily .deliberative, hurried
mode of doing business we have
reached the conclusion which every
unbiased observing man must soon.
err or latter arrive at; which is that
party conventions can never form
such tickets as the popular demand
requires. No means have been de.
vised, apparently, of streng thening
this weak point in our political sys
TEN. 1t is the easiest matter in the
world to measure the candidates cor.
rectly after the nominations if the
necessary Inquiry is made of those
who have the opportunity of being
acquainted with them. But there has
been no means of remedying this de-
feet. A factlous opposition some
times puts up an "independent" can.
didate, or the disappointed aspirant
will announce himself and enter the
canvass. But these squabbles are
looked upon as personal affairs, which
they generally are, and are not meant
to represent public necessity but
private pique. Consequently such
spasmodic efforts seldom succeed, and
are of no real benefit to the public
when occasionally they are success
full.
A higher order Of excellence is de-
manded by the public oftheir servants
which our party conventions do not
possess the ability to furnish, mainly
because they are non deiheratlve
bodies. That this evil must be rem
edied is a conviction which has taken
firm hold of the minds of majority
of our best thinkers and best inform
ed men, and if where party nomina-
tions are weak by reason of their
candidates lacking in ability and
training for the duties of the Office
which it is proposed they shall fill,
other candidates we're brought for.
ward by an elerent in which the
people recognized public opinion.
such candidates, if strong in the ele.
ments of eminent fitness, would COM
mand popular favor and would be
called to serve the public by the Pop
ular vote.
There are organizations springing
up all over the country that are ad-
dressing themselves to the momen-
tous questions of the Gay in political
economy, but unless they can have
representatives. in law making and
executive bodies no benefit can be
expected through the only me, iums
that progressive intelligence can
operate successfully. If our party
conventions, not through design but
incapability are unable to answer the
demands Of an enlightened public
sentiment, what remedy can be
found? Those public spirited asso-
Citations, of which type may be
found among farmers in this county
the Cecil Farmers Club and the Elk.
ton Grange, and also among labor
organizations in some of the
towns, might furnish the answer.
We suggest that these organizations
name a candidate possessing the
proper qualifications Tor the duties
where both party conventions have
failed to nominate such candidates.
Those nominees would haye the gray.
lty OF respectable backing and en-
dorsement behind them, and this is
all that any of the candidates have.
The gravity of a party endorsement
in a forma. manner. Candidates
possessing eminent fitness brought
before the public in such manner and
by such sponsors would command
respect, and voters would have an
opportunity TO place men in respon-
sible positions qualified for the
places.
The public demands for candidates
possessing the necessary qualifica.
lions for the position to be filled, are
growing clamorous, and the public
have we'll nigh lost faith in their DO.
litical party conventions to supply
this want. The mass of the demo.
cratic party hoped that their county
convention would supply this want,
hut the convention dismally failed
with the majority of the ticket. Hope
was then centered on the republican
convention to do better, by the earn
est men of both parties and the dis